Get ready to spread your wings!
Our next bird count is coming soon
New Zealand Garden Bird Survey
28 June – 6 July 2025
Pencils down, binoculars down.
The bird count is over for another year.
New Zealand
Garden Bird Survey
28 June – 6 July 2025
Pencils down, binoculars down.
The bird count is over for another year.
New Zealand Garden Bird Survey
28 June – 6 July 2025
How to take part
1 hour
Choose an hour on one day during the survey period and find the perfect bird counting spot.
What are our garden birds telling us?
Birds act as backyard barometers – telling us about the health of the environment we live in. They are signalling significant changes in our environment over the last 10 years. We should be listening.
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research has distilled a substantial information base – bird counts gathered by New Zealanders from more than 49,000 garden surveys since 2014 – into simple but powerful metrics.
Thank you to all the citizen scientists who participated in the survey in 2024. It was a great turnout.